Current Exhibition
Aa Collections / SWAB Barcelona Art Fair / 08.10 - 10.10
LAST STOP BEFORE LEAVING THE LOOP
featuring:
Adam Cohen (Made by Mystery)
Ines Kaufmann
Genoveva Kriechbaum
Lieber Michael
Carlos Perez
curated by:
Georgij Melnikov
A hybrid installation consisting of a mysterious virtual Landscape projected on a screen inside the booth and a console with an interactive music "puzzle". In the Installation real and digital artworks are merging to one and exploring the new fields of digital commodity in the frame of an art fair.
The core & frame of the installation is a 3D Video Rendering Loop by the artist Lieber Michael in which he first made a digital copy of the Aa Collections Gallery Space and further altered it so far that it appears as a Gasoline station on a fictional Highway. Further he created a multilevel Game which will be on a small console in the middle of the booth. In the game you start at the gallery space and by progressing in levels the space becomes altered until at one point you appear in the gasoline station which is projected in the booth on a screen. The soundtrack of the game is produced by a self-playing synthesizer called “Karma Crush” developed by the musician and artists Adam Cohen who under the Pseudonym Made by Mystery is building Analog Sound Effect Devices, his newest Interactive Artwork the Mantra Crush will be presented at the fair.
There are more artworks displayed in the booth two of which are paintings by Ines Kaufmann and Carlos Perez and the third is a photography (printed on transparent PVC foil) of Genoveva Kriechbaum. The paintings and the photography will appear also in the game and will exist as collectible NFT´s. The photography of Genoveva Kriechbaum was taken on her journey through the UAE in times of the state’s rapid development and pictures the preparation of a giant Oil reservoir which at the time the Photography was taken is empty and being maintained by a worker.
This present vast emptiness paired with preparation for an uncertain future is the conceptual & emotional core of this installation, not only it reflects on the questions we must ask ourselves about the environmental developments we want to accelerate. It points to the rapid development in the art and financial world, in terms of digitization and the challenge to use these technologies for a more equal society. The metaphor of the gasoline station as last stop before a journey to a new area in combination with the endless video loop keeping us at the same place is probably a good description of the time we are witnessing on so many levels of the reality we are living in.
The core & frame of the installation is a 3D Video Rendering Loop by the artist Lieber Michael in which he first made a digital copy of the Aa Collections Gallery Space and further altered it so far that it appears as a Gasoline station on a fictional Highway. Further he created a multilevel Game which will be on a small console in the middle of the booth. In the game you start at the gallery space and by progressing in levels the space becomes altered until at one point you appear in the gasoline station which is projected in the booth on a screen. The soundtrack of the game is produced by a self-playing synthesizer called “Karma Crush” developed by the musician and artists Adam Cohen who under the Pseudonym Made by Mystery is building Analog Sound Effect Devices, his newest Interactive Artwork the Mantra Crush will be presented at the fair.
There are more artworks displayed in the booth two of which are paintings by Ines Kaufmann and Carlos Perez and the third is a photography (printed on transparent PVC foil) of Genoveva Kriechbaum. The paintings and the photography will appear also in the game and will exist as collectible NFT´s. The photography of Genoveva Kriechbaum was taken on her journey through the UAE in times of the state’s rapid development and pictures the preparation of a giant Oil reservoir which at the time the Photography was taken is empty and being maintained by a worker.
This present vast emptiness paired with preparation for an uncertain future is the conceptual & emotional core of this installation, not only it reflects on the questions we must ask ourselves about the environmental developments we want to accelerate. It points to the rapid development in the art and financial world, in terms of digitization and the challenge to use these technologies for a more equal society. The metaphor of the gasoline station as last stop before a journey to a new area in combination with the endless video loop keeping us at the same place is probably a good description of the time we are witnessing on so many levels of the reality we are living in.
